FLORIDA: No More Cream Cheese

Tony Bowers, a high-class haberdasher across
from Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, took out of his window the hand-painted
necktie marked $1,500 and put it out of sight. "It's murder now," he
said tersely. "I have some $25 and $35 ties, but I don't take them out
unless a customer comes in and asks for one." All Miami felt the same
way Tony did. By last week the city was aware that World War IIand
the boom that followedwas over.

The black-market set, having blown its tainted bankroll, had crawled
back into the woodwork,...